2014 wiki write off

Welcome to AAPG's inaugural Wiki Write Off!

The Write Off competition is open to all AAPG Student Chapters, and the winning Student Chapter of the December 2014 competition will receive a check for $500.

December 2014 WWO results

Winner!

Congratulations to Universitas Gadjah Mada for winning the Inaugural Wiki Write Off with their article on Well log analysis for reservoir characterization!

Other entries

University of Ilorin

• Structural geology
• Continental drift

Louisiana State University

• Ti in zircon geothermometer
• Geodynamics of terrestrial exoplanets
• Lwandle plate
• Strain partitioning
• Main Central Thrust

Universitas Gadjah Mada

• Subduction zone
• Sandstone
• Depositional environments

Makerere University Kampala

• Economics: global supply and demand
• Sandstone sedimentology and stratigraphy
• Economics

Instructions

Each chapter who wishes to participate must:

1. Write and post 5 wiki articles to the AAPG wiki page on geoscience topics of their choice
2. Send an e-mail with the titles of their five articles, the name and address of the chapter, and the names of the students who helped author the articles to [email protected]
3. Complete the previous two items no later than current competition has ended
4. Articles should be original works--if other sources are utilized they should be quoted and cited according to proper literary rules. Articles containing plagiarized material will be automatically disqualified.

The articles will be judged by the AAPG Wiki Advisory Board and the AAPG Senior Associate Editor Board. The judges will select one article from all articles submitted to be the winning article based on:

1. Quality of science
2. Completeness
3. Quality of writing

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